Silvia Gstrein, University of Innsbruck Cultural Heritage Online 2009, Florence, 16 December 2009

1. Selection preferences (MINERVA)
Otherwise
Popular Condition of
unavailable
material the originals
material
Appropriate Preservation
for online
viewing
? of delicate
originals
Other
Copyright Project
Costs digital
& IPR theme
versions
[Clissmann 2004: MINERVA Good Practices Handbook]

2. ?
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What happens to and who will take care of those
materials not covered by the current projects?
How can individual users‘ needs been considered in
digitisation?
Who will digitise books of minor languages or those from
special or smaller collections or institutions?
From the user´s point-of view: how can someone who
needs a book in digital form receive this book, here and
now, if it has not yet been digitized?

3. EOD – the service
Incorporation
into Digital
Library
EOD button:
digitising this
book on request
Library: scans &
transfers images

4. EOD: The Libraries‘ point of view
Order Data Manager
– Central database with web-interface
Each library has access to its own orders only
According to its needs each library is able to customise the
website texts, automatically generated email texts, etc.
Central management of credit card payments
Digital Object Generator
– Central service for generating eBooks
OCR recognition (antiqua and gothic)
Automated cover generation
PDF & RTF delivery
Abbyy XML for library
Streaming link for download generation

6. Who is currently
offering the service?

7. Co-ordinator: University of
Innsbruck, Library
More than 20 libraries from
10 countries

8. EOD members
University Libraries of Innsbruck, Graz and Vienna (2x),
Austria
Vienna City Library
Bavarian State Library (Munich), University Libraries of
Germany Regensburg, Greifswald, Berlin (Humboldt University), Saxon
State Library (Dresden)
Czech Moravian Library (Brno), Research Library in Olomouc,
Republic National Technical Library, Library of the Czech Academy of
Science
Denmark Royal Library
Estonia National Library, University Library of Tartu
France Medical and Dental Academic Library of Paris
Portugal National Library
Slovakia University Library of Bratislava
Slovenia National and University Library
National Széchényi Library of Hungary, Library of the
Hungary
Hungarian Academy of Science

9. EOD in „The European Library“

10. Facts & Figures
Quantities:
– Approx. 3200 books = approx. 840.000 pages
– 1900 customers
– Top 3 libraries: 1 order / working day
– Quite big differences between libraries
Delivery time
– average 7 working days
Average price of order: about 5-10 EUR
basic fee + 0,15–0,30 EUR per page

11. Experiences
Access to
books Fast!
otherwise
inaccessible
User reactions
How can I get
Good books from 20th
quality! century?

12. Used functions of EOD files
(in % of respondents; n = 181, source: EOD user survey 2008)
other
unused
Copy & Paste
Full text search
Print whole book
Print single pages
Browse & Zoom
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

13. Reprints
From the user’s point of view: one more click

14. EC Culture programme
PROJECT 2009-2013
Objectives:
to enlarge the EOD network with new European
members
to take EOD as a best practice model for a
European-wide cooperation, to train stakeholders
to run a similar multinational cultural service
to support intercultural dialogue among
readers and users of historical books with the
help of web 2.0 technology

15. Future perspective:
More „on demand“ products
What we would like to realise:
− Digitisation on demand for blind
and visually impaired
− Creation of „real“ eBooks with
corrected full text approximating
100% accuracy

16. Thank you for your attention!
Silvia.Gstrein@uibk.ac.at